Crime

Law & Crime reports: Kyle Rittenhouse’s former bodyguard and spokesperson feels the 17-year-old might never have been acquitted of killing two people and seriously injuring another if the jury knew then what he knows now. “When the world finds out everything that happened in this case and with Kyle, it’ll be shocking. It’s breathtaking,” Dave Hancock said in an interview …

York, Pennsylvania’s Fox affiliate reports: A Quarryville Bible study instructor was arrested on Wednesday after a woman came forward to report that he had sexually assaulted her repeatedly as a minor, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Officers from Troop J – Lancaster say the victim came to the station on Sept. 23 to report the assaults, which had occurred when …

Patch Rockville Centre reports: The Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre (DRVC) and its parishes have announced a proposed global settlement with hundreds of sex abuse survivors, who allege they were abused as children at the DRVC’s parishes, churches, and schools, lawyers for survivors announced on Thursday. The settlement is based on DRVC’s parishes filing for a $320 million bankruptcy, and …

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:  An Ellis County former youth pastor with a history of child sex assault offenses was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexually abusing underage victims who attended his church. Marvin Scales, 53, of Waxahachie, pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of sexual abuse of a young child, one count of aggravated sexual assault of …

Tulsa’s Fox affiliate reports: A Tulsa pastor was arrested and charged with rape, child sex abuse and incest. He just resigned from his church over the weekend. According to an affidavit, Bertheophilus Maurice “Judge” Bailey Sr. began sexually assaulting his victim when she was a child. It went on to say the abuse got worse as she got older. Until …

CBS News reports: The U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia said Philip C. Pulley of Huntington Valley pleaded guilty to falsely registering to vote, double voting and election fraud. He faces a maximum of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, a $10,000 to $250,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Federal prosecutors said Pulley registered to vote in …

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports: The youth director of a Denton church has been arrested after a parent and their child accused him of inappropriate behavior with teenagers, police say. According to police, the suspect, 63-year-old Craig Stone, was charged with indecency with a child and possession of child pornography, both felonies. Stone is listed as the youth director and president …

The Associated Press reports: Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday. Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, …

CNN reports: Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former …

Law & Crime reports: A Louisiana jury convicted a former “Survivor” contestant and pastor – who started a Christian school – of child cruelty on Monday. Jurors took just an hour to convict John Raymond, 62, in a St. Tammany Parish court after a six-day trial. The Slidell Police Department arrested Raymond in April 2022 on three counts of cruelty …

NBC News reports: Police are investigating what appears to be gunfire damage overnight at a Democratic Party-coordinated campaign office for Vice President Kamala Harris. The incident occurred just a few days before Harris is scheduled to visit Arizona as she campaigns for president. “We can confirm that on 9/23/24, what appears to be damage from gunfire at … a DNC …

NBC News reports: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a stunning disclosure made to Congress on Tuesday while testifying about his potential misuse of taxpayer money. Favre, appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of improperly using political connections to redirect public money to his alma mater and his …

The Associated Press reports: A federal jury in Texas on Monday rejected voter intimidation allegations against all but one of a group of former President Donald Trump supporters who surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus on an interstate days before the 2020 election. Only one of the six Trump supporters who were sued in the civil trial was held responsible by …

Tampa’s Fox affiliate reports: The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is looking for possible additional victims after one of its former deputies who was also a youth group pastor in Riverview was arrested on child molestation charges. Deputies say they went to a Hillsborough County home on February 24, 2023, to investigate a report of an adult man possibly molesting a …

The North Carolina Beat reports: From the pulpit to a prison cell, 37-year-old Demiro Rick Johnson will be 71 years old when he is released from prison and required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his natural life, according to court documents obtained by The North Carolina Beat. On Friday, a judge sentenced Johnson, a now–convicted …

The Associated Press reports: The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president, the Justice Department disclosed Monday in arguing that he should remain locked up as the case moves forward. The note, addressed “Dear World,” was placed in a box that was dropped …

From the Justice Department: James H. Swanson, age 59, of Rome, New York, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Matthew Scarpino, Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo, New York Field Office. As part of his earlier guilty plea, Swanson …

People Magazine reports: Sean “Diddy” Combs is on suicide watch as he awaits trial in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, sources tell PEOPLE. Combs, 54, was arrested at a Manhattan hotel on the night of Monday, Sept. 16. The next day, his indictment was unsealed, revealing that he’s charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. MDC, which …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A federal judge sentenced an Ohio pastor to two-and-a-half years in prison Thursday and ordered him to report immediately to jail for using a bullhorn to incite the mob against police on Jan. 6, 2021. William Dunfee, 59, of Coshocton, Ohio, was convicted after a stipulated bench trial in January of one felony count of …

The Associated Press reports: A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the slaying, police said. The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times following an argument inside the courthouse, according to Kentucky State …